This wiki will explore Mayer's Multimedia Principles as outlined in his book, Multimedia Learning, 2nd Edition, using multimedia technologies to illuminate each Principle.
The promise of multimedia learning is that, by combining pictures with words, we will be able to foster deeper learning in students. First, multimedia instruction messages can be designed in ways that are consistent with how people learn, and thus can serve as aids to human learning (Mayer, 1997, 1999a, 1999b, 2001). Second, there is a growing research base showing that students learn more deeply from well designed multimedia presentations than from traditional verbal-only messages, including improved performance on tests of problem-solving transfer (Mandl & Levin, 1989; Mayer, 2001; Najjar, 1998; Schnotz & Kulhavy, 1994; Sweller, 1999; Van Merrienboer, 1997). In short, the promise of multimedia learning is that teachers can tap the power of visual and verbal forms of expression in the service of promoting student understanding
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Click on the image below to listen to a talk about Richard E.Mayer's Multimedia Learning
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Mayer's Twelve Principals for Multimedia Learning
Principles for managing essential processing
Segmenting principle: People learn better when a multimedia lesson is presented in learner-paced segments rather than as a continuous unit.
Pre-training principle: People learn better from a multimedia lesson when they know the names and characteristics of the main concepts.
Modality principle: People learn better from animation and narration than from animation and on-screen text.
Principles for reducing extraneous processing
Coherence principle: People learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included.
Redundancy principle: People learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration, and on on-screen text.
Signaling principle: People learn better when the words include cues about the organization of the presentation.
Spatial contiguity principle: People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented near rather than far from each other on the page or screen.
Temporal contiguity principle: People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively.
Principles based on social cues
Personalization principle: People learn better when the words are in conversational style rather than formal style.
Voice principle: People learn better when words are spoken in a standard-accented human voice than in a machine voice or foreign-accented human voice.
Image principle: People do not necessarily learn better from a multimedia lesson when the speaker’s image is added to the screen.
Multimedia Principle people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone
Using a wiki page template designed by the instructor you and your group will develop a page explaining one of Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia that will utilize the following multimedia tool: VoiceThread
Your group's Principle of Multimedia will include:
A simple paragraph (2-3 sentences) explaining the topic including group member names
A word mosaic about your topic from ABCYa http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
VoiceThread that explains the topic using:·
Text ·Audio
Images
Video
A discussion topic that class members respond to using the ORQ format
Your VoiceThread should contain between 15 and 18 slides. Slides should be clean, single colored background, and contrasting font. Images or videos must be used to illustrate the points of the Principles. Your voice MUST be included explaining the Principle's sections. ALL images must be cited on a separate slide or no grade will be rewarded. The VoiceThread should contain the following IDENTIFIED six sections:
Definition of Multiedia Principle in YOUR Words with a Word Cloud included
Example of the principle in YOUR words. You may NOT use the principle example directly from the book.
The "case" for the principle, once again in your own words.
The research behind the existence of the principle. You may cite research from the book in your own words.
A bibliography of your citiations of images and text you have used from Mayer's textbook
An ORQ question about the Principle. The ORQ's will be the basis for our Mayer Quiz.
This wiki will explore Mayer's Multimedia Principles as outlined in his book, Multimedia Learning, 2nd Edition, using multimedia technologies to illuminate each Principle.
The promise of multimedia learning is that, by combining pictures with words, we will be able to foster deeper learning in students. First, multimedia instruction messages can be designed in ways that are consistent with how people learn, and thus can serve as aids to human learning (Mayer, 1997, 1999a, 1999b, 2001). Second, there is a growing research base showing that students learn more deeply from well designed multimedia presentations than from traditional verbal-only messages, including improved performance on tests of problem-solving transfer (Mandl & Levin, 1989; Mayer, 2001; Najjar, 1998; Schnotz & Kulhavy, 1994; Sweller, 1999; Van Merrienboer, 1997). In short, the promise of multimedia learning is that teachers can tap the power of visual and verbal forms of expression in the service of promoting student understandingClick on the image below to listen to a talk about Richard E.Mayer's Multimedia Learning
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Mayer's Twelve Principals for Multimedia Learning
Principles for managing essential processing
Principles for reducing extraneous processing
- Coherence principle: People learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included.
- Redundancy principle: People learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration, and on on-screen text.
- Signaling principle: People learn better when the words include cues about the organization of the presentation.
- Spatial contiguity principle: People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented near rather than far from each other on the page or screen.
- Temporal contiguity principle: People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively.
Principles based on social cuesYour group's Principle of Multimedia will include:
A simple paragraph (2-3 sentences) explaining the topic including group member names
A word mosaic about your topic from ABCYa http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
VoiceThread that explains the topic using:·
Text
·Audio
Images
Video
A discussion topic that class members respond to using the ORQ format
Your VoiceThread should contain between 15 and 18 slides. Slides should be clean, single colored background, and contrasting font. Images or videos must be used to illustrate the points of the Principles. Your voice MUST be included explaining the Principle's sections. ALL images must be cited on a separate slide or no grade will be rewarded.
The VoiceThread should contain the following IDENTIFIED six sections: